Tag: sharemarket

Regular readers will be aware of my love for dividend investing. There’s nothing quite like making an investment, and in return, receiving an increasing sum of cash deposited straight into your bank account. No hassles. No bills. And very little paperwork. But it gets even better! I believe dividend investing

Welcome to a new series, called LIC reviews! Since I bang on about LICs, I thought it best that I go through a few and review them for you guys. And in doing so, explain my thinking and why I find them attractive for our portfolio. So from time to

Building wealth is a pretty simple exercise. But retiring on that wealth is less simple. Here’s what I mean… First of all, consider a couple with their house paid-off, worth one million dollars. You could definitely consider them wealthy. This is a millionaire couple! While it sounds good, it doesn’t

I’m back! Strong Money Australia has been M.I.A for the last couple of weeks. Don’t worry, I haven’t retired from retirement. Not yet anyway 😉 So what’s my excuse? Well recently, I flew over to Victoria to spend some time with family, which was great. It was so nice catching

Pay yourself first. That’s the advice from many finance gurus. It’s even written about in legendary books like “The Richest Man in Babylon”. By the way that’s a great book you should definitely read! The main message is: A part of all you earn is yours to keep. My take away

Man, check out this chart of the Aussie Sharemarket. Investing in shares must be so easy! Well, to some extent it is, but it’s usually human nature that gets in the way of successful long-term investing. Our natural instincts that served us so well in the caveman days, are

I grew up in Country Victoria. A nice quiet place, not too far from the coast. Growing up I always thought I would get some sort of trade and stay at home as long as possible because hey it’s damn near free, so I get to spend my money on